PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Representativeness Heuristic, Pseudoscience, Socioeconomic Status
23 Sep 2015
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Humans are not objective and values seep into work. Need to distinguish between pseudoscience and good science. Values influence which topics we choose to study and our approach to studying it: trends in psychology echo real-life issues: The same psychological processes that serve us well in most situations also predispose us to errors in thinking . Mental shortcuts to speed up processing of information/ stimuli: we are cognitive misers (fiske and taylor, 1991, unfortunately, can lead us to oversimplify. Availability heuristic: it comes to mind. estimating the likelihood of an event based on the ease with which: eg. Are there more letters in the english language with the letter k as the first letter or as the third letter in the word: easier for our brains to think about first letter of words than third letter! Hindsight bias: could have predicted a given outcome. I knew it all along effect, our tendency to overestimate how well we: eg.
